Developers: | Axenix (formerly Aksencher Russia) Aksenix |
Date of the premiere of the system: | 2022/09/20 |
Last Release Date: | 2024/03/26 |
Technology: | BI, SCM |
The main articles are:
- SCM (Supply Chain Management) - Supply Chain Management (Inventory Management)
- Business Intelligence Definition
2024: Control tower module
On March 26, 2024 consulting , the company Axenix announced the expansion of the functionality of the In.Plan platform and introduced the "Control tower" module. The development will allow the company to launch a comprehensive service for building an analytical-based performance management system. dashboards It will be relevant for companies in the & sector, RetailFMCG industrial enterprises, industries transport that need tools to analysts make management decisions.
As reported, supply chain management often faces challenges related to the availability and quality of analytical information for key management decisions. Often, the collection and consolidation of information is accompanied by many manual operations, and the hierarchy of collected metrics does not always allow you to respond to management requests from the operational to strategic level. In addition, companies lack transparency in the reasons for deviations of actual KPI values from target ones.
Axenix offers a comprehensive technology solution that allows you to effectively manage supply chains, optimize operational control, and enable you to find growth points.
Control tower is an analytical tool that allows you to analyze consolidated business indicators in the form of specially designed dashboards. A distinctive feature of the module is a data model with a tiered KPI system, integrated into the In.Plan ecosystem, for example, planned values of transportation, warehouse and production costs. KPIs are aggregated from detailed levels and updated automatically during the integrated planning cycle in the Demand/Supply Planning modules.
Control Tower can be used independently of other In.Plan modules, which will allow you to measure various indicators even before implementing the main integrated planning loop.
Within the framework of the project, specialists from the consulting department of In.Plan and Applied Intelligence Axenix practices will analyze the existing performance management system, business processes and customer KPIs, compare the used indicators with various practices, develop a supply chain performance management system, including a set of KPIs and a methodology for calculating them. At the final stage, Axenix adapts the functionality of the Control Tower module to meet the individual requirements of the customer, as well as, if necessary, configure personalized dashboards.
The implementation methodology was developed on the basis of many years of expertise of the Axenix team. The performance evaluation system is built on the basis of the customer's CVP. At each stage of the value chain, Axenix selects the performance attributes that best match the customer's business. An individual set of KPIs is compiled for each management level - these can be constant and variable costs for logistics, warehouse, transport, etc.
For efficient supply chain management, Axenix offers evaluation metrics for each phase of the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) cycle.
The digital integrated planning platform In.Plan is developed on the basis of the experience of the Russian teams Accenture and SAP. The solution combines demand planning, sales and operations, profitability management, supply and production planning, and operational analytics. The platform allows you to automatically plan and adjust demand plans for all hierarchies and planning horizons. For forecasting, you use your own or plug-in predefined AI models.
2022: Announcement of In.Plan
On September 20, 2022, the company AXENIX introduced the In.Plan. integrated planning platform. The Russian The development will help large companies create planning systems in the context of supply chains, the need to reduce costs and the departure of Western vendors. software The solution became the first UPS platform Russia in and the first own AXENIX product after separation from the international network. Accenture
According to the company, In.Plan consists of five main functional units: "Central Forecasting," "Planning sales and Operations," "Profitability Management (NRM)," "Supply Chain Planning analytics " and "Operational Control Tower."
The solution can be used both on the company's own infrastructure and in the cloud. It uses domestic developments and opensource components such as PostgreSQL, Spark, GreenPlum and Angular, which provides customers with independence from Western vendors. In.Plan has the ability to scale horizontally, optimize resources according to the "pay when you use" scheme, as well as built-in integration tools. In addition, the solution distinguishes the flexibility of configuration for the user.
AXENIX also presented a roadmap for the development of the In.Plan. platform. In particular, by the 1st quarter of 2023, the company plans to implement a low-code designer for managing model objects, data provide a tool for scenario planning and implement joint planning functions with partners. Until the end of 2023, the team will continue to develop low-code platform capabilities and provide process algorithms and planning designers, as well as a tool for managing algorithms/. AIML